KOSMOBREVIA[Greek], or the infancy of the world With an Appendix of Gods resting day, Edon Garden; Mans Happiness before, Misery after, his Fall. Whereunto is added, The Praise of Nothing; Divine Ejaculations; The four Ages of the world; The Birth of Christ; Also a Century of Historical Applications; With a Taste of Poetical fictions. Written some years since by N. B.[i.e. Nicholas Billingsley] ... And now published at the request of his Friends |
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2 On Apollo.
Latona 's son in floating Delos born,Vast Cyclops slew, his god-head lost, forlorn
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Thessalian Admetus fleecy sheep;
Mercury gave to him his Harp; the Speare,
Lyre, Buckler, on his Image painted were.
The Muses father, Poets chiefest power,
Author of Musick in the upper Bower;
Sol was he call'd, Bacchus in earth, in hell
Known by the name Apollo, he could tell
Things long before they were, he first did know
The Art of Phisick, from his radiant bow
His golden-footed messengers doth send
Whose rapid force sing to their journeys end;
In love with Hiacynth, and Daphne, he
Turnes him into a Flower, her a Tree.
The Lawrell, Olive, and the Juniper,
Unto Apollo consecrated were;
The Princely Cock, the Herauld of the day,
The griping Goshauk, greedy of his prey,
The silver Swan, and Crow, which can divine,
Is off'red up unto Apollo's shrine.
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